Apple’s “full-blown operation” To Help Get Grandmother Out Of Ukraine Revealed
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Apple and CEO Tim Cook helped get an engineer's grandmother out of Ukraine in 2023, the employee shared on X. Apple, like other mega cap technology giants, has a large security team responsible for protecting employees and company secrets. According to the now former Apple engineer, translators and drivers, along with other personnel, helped coordinate to get her grandmother out of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in 2023 when attacks against civilians were widespread. Her grandmother is now safe, and the engineer added that her revelation is not promoting Apple.
Apple Paid For Employee's Grandmother's Hotel & Travel As It Helped Get Her Out Of Kharkiv
According to the former Apple engineer who goes by the name kate on X, Apple made considerable effort to get her grandmother out of Kharkiv in 2023. This included hiring security contractors as well as relying on translators and drivers to coordinate on ground efforts. The entire attempt "was very internal and not for the press," she added, sharing that Apple's efforts to help her family ensure that she "will be forever grateful" to the company.
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Sharing additional details, she revealed that it "was like a full-blown operation" which included "WhatsApp chats with different coordinators and drivers on the ground." Apple went as far as to even "for the hotel and tickets to a safe place from Poland." As of its latest quarter, the firm had $25.6 billion in cash and earned $385 billion in trailing twelve month revenue, so safe to say, it could pay for the engineer's grandmother's tickets countless times over and still not feel a pinch.
The former Apple employee was highly appreciative of her employer's support at the time. Commenting
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